Myanmar general’s declaration spells trouble for restless populace
Min Aung Hlaing, who heads the junta that launched a coup against Aung San Suu Kyi’s government in Myanmar last February has made it clear that he doesn’t plan on relinquishing power anytime soon.
Tories set to end support for workers struggling under pandemic
The Conservative government are set to end both the furlough scheme and Universal Credit uplift on 30 September, in an attempt to further shift the burden of the Coronavirus pandemic off of the government and onto workers. The planned end to support this autumn would see the 1.9 million people still on furlough having to return to work, while those on Universal Credit would lose the £20 a week uplift brought in earlier in the pandemic.
Is Tokyo 2020 a disaster, or were the Olympics always like this?
Howard Green picks apart the grandiosity of the Olympic Games, examining where the international competition falls short.
Tories prioritise military over the NHS
The Tories are set to allocate £195 million on killer drones only days after NHS staff balked at a mere 3% pay offer from the government.
Drug deaths in Scotland continued to rise in 2020
1339 people died as a result of drug misuse in Scotland in 2020, an increase of 75 from the previous year, marking a seventh consecutive year of record deaths.
Reopening of communications in Korea sparks hope for a unified peninsula
Reunification is a cause held dearly by many Koreans, but hopes of progress inside the split nation are consistently stagnated by the continued occupation led by US troops.
Challenge archive: Fighting Vietnam
In this article from March 1968, Trevor Hyett writes on the Vietnamese struggle for national liberation.
Communist campaigners bare their gnashers in the East of England
Communists in the East of England have now set up a third centre for their campaign to restore dental care to local towns and rural areas. There is a crisis of care provision, with some major cities such as Cambridge and Ipswich dipping below the fifty per cent mark of adults qualifying for NHS cover.
Welsh Communists mark 85th anniversary of Spanish Civil War and legacy of International Brigaders
A range of speakers contributed to the event at at the Welsh International Brigades Memorial earlier this month (21 July 2021) in Cathays Park Cardiff including Will Barton, secretary of the Cardiff branch of the Communist Party (whose speech is published in full below), Robert Griffiths General Secretary of Communist Party and Marc Bilbao Asensio from the Communist Party of Spain. There were revolutionary songs from Cor Cochian Caerdydd and a poem and reading from International Brigades Cymru. Keeping alive the memory of the Welsh international brigaders: Yn cadw’r cof am y brigadwyr rhyngwladol o gymru yn fyw.
Tommy Robinson loses libel case and falls into bankruptcy
One of the largest figureheads of the far-right in Britain, Tommy Robinson (Stephen Yaxley-Lennon), has lost a libel case involving school child Jamal Hijazi.
